Abstract
In one of his most clearly autobiographical pages, Jesi acknowledges his debt to Kerènyi by recalling “the distinction, in the context of methods relating to the science of mythology, between ‘explaining’ and ‘accepting’ “. To understand Jesi’s thought in its most original feature we must surely consider and examine this sentence. However, we must also consider Jesi’s relationship with Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language and history. In fact, Jesi constructs his methodology by dialectically intertwining the citations of the two authors. The purpose of these pages is to offer an analysis of this method.